The Sublime Object of Ideology, Slavoj Žižek (1989)

Zizek’s first book. Very difficult to penetrate, much less enjoy, for dozens of pages at a time. But having read several of his later and more accessible works I remained committed to pushing on. Lacan and Hegel. Lacan and Hegel. Lacan and Hegel. It actually works.. which is to say I am now in a position to better understand these two essential ingredients in Zizek’s oeuvre: Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Now to get a grip on his approach to Marx and Christianity. Throw in Alfred Hitchcock, Batman, and Kung Fu Panda: mix thoroughly.

All that is Solid Melts into Air

“To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world—and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.”
Marshall Berman (1982)